Responsibilities
- The Project Management Office (PMO) Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day execution and delivery of project management services including team leadership, project oversight, performance tracking, and stakeholder communication.
- Ensures a broad spectrum of technical engagements are delivered in alignment with defined scope, schedule, and budget expectations established
- Effective communication with executive leadership and departmental teams to maintain efficient project execution, resource coordination, and consistent delivery outcomes.
- Direct supervision of a remote-based PMO team including Senior Project Managers, Projects Managers and Program Managers who each carry multiple on-going projects varying in size.
- Provide an example of strong communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, along with modeling adaptability to changing priorities while maintaining a consistent focus on delivering high-quality results.
- A customer driven work ethic that matches Planet's principals of providing exceptional service, partnership and surpassing expectations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business or technology or equivalent experience. Master’s degree is a plus.
- Minimum of Five (5) or more years of experience as a PMO Manager or Director for a large enterprise matrixed organization, balancing multiple ongoing priorities is essential.
- Competencies include a strong understanding of project management methodologies (Agile, PMBOK) with a demonstrated ability to execute and deliver projects successfully.
- Experience delivering complex IT projects that demand an understanding of technical deployments that drive client success
- Previous experience managing project financials, including budgeting, cost control, and the ability to identify and resolve risks and issues to maintain delivery commitments including the ability to analyze project metrics and performance data and use insights to drive execution-focused decisions.
- Experience ensuring adherence to SOWs, contractual commitments, and delivery standards is required
- Deliver clear communication to vertical leadership and partnering cross functionally
- Responsibility for identifying risks, assisting staff to manage them appropriately or escalate as needed
- The capacity to adapt to changing project dynamics, technologies, and market conditions.
- The successful candidate must possess at least 2 of the following certifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
- Microsoft Project 2016/2019 Certification
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business or technology, or equivalent experience
- Five or more years of experience as a PMO Manager or Director in a large enterprise matrixed organization
- Strong understanding of Agile and PMBOK project management methodologies
- Experience delivering complex IT projects involving technical deployments
- Experience managing project financials, budgeting, cost control, risks, issues, metrics, and performance data
- Experience ensuring adherence to statements of work, contractual commitments, and delivery standards
- At least two certifications: PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or Microsoft Project 2016/2019 Certification
- Master's degree
- US citizenship and ability to meet federal agency clearance requirements
What We Do
Planet Technologies was built around investing in and developing long term relationships with our customers and corporate partners. We work hard to keep our staff trained on the latest technologies, policy and operational issues impacting today’s federal and corporate environments. Being an expert on the technology we support is the first step, more importantly is understanding your business mission and integrating technology into a long term strategic plan. Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft consulting services to public sector and commercial organizations. Our team of Microsoft experts provides support for Office 365, CRM, SharePoint, System Center, SQL, and Windows 7-10. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, records management, workflow automation, collaboration, systems management, virtualization and more. A Global Leader in Microsoft Technologies: Few companies can compare to Planet Technologies when it comes to an established relationship with Microsoft. As a company with a 100% focus on the Microsoft platform, we know Microsoft technologies and we are a trusted partner. As a team of experienced and certified Microsoft consultants and Microsoft trainers, we are the best partner to help your staff get up to speed quickly and cost effectively in order to make your business more productive with your Enterprise Agreement investment. Advanced certifications • Microsoft Partner with five gold and ten silver competencies • CPLS Microsoft certified training Highly skilled staff • Microsoft Certified Solutions Masters (MCSM) • Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) • Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) • Microsoft CRM Rangers • 150+ Microsoft Consultants We are a full-service, independent training company providing a range of IT and developer training services based on Microsoft technologies to individuals and organizations.
